Both were months in the making, and neither seemed likely. Efforts to form a unity government with the center-left Zionist Union, and hopes for new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, looked, for much of the last year, like pipe dreams set for failure. Searching for a way to expand his limited coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had […]
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Middle EastEgyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi has reportedly been working behind the scenes to piece together a diplomatic initiative to jumpstart the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. According to a report Tuesday in the Yedioth Ahronoth daily, Egyptian diplomats have contacted their Israeli and Palestinian counterparts in a “significant” effort to arrange a Cairo meeting between Prime Minister Benjamin
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International, Middle EastThe Museum of the Jewish People (Beit Hatfutsot) in Tel Aviv is opening its new wing, featuring new and exciting exhibitions. Arutz Sheva visited the museum and spoke with CEO Dan Tadmor. One of the new exhibitions features models of synagogues past and present, displayed in a new dedicated gallery presenting the diverse expressions of
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NEW YORK (WJC) — An outspoken anti-Western cleric was chosen on Tuesday as the new head of the Assembly of Experts, a key body in Iran. Observers of Iranian politics regard the election of 90-year-old Ahmad Jannati, a critic of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, as a sign that hardliners are still in firm control of
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Middle EastIsraeli unemployment rate sees historic drop (JNS.org) April 2016 marked a historic drop in the Israeli unemployment rate, which sunk to 4.9 percent compared to 5.3 percent in March, according to a new report from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). The report said about 193,000 people were unemployed in April, down from roughly 208,000
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Middle EastMK Avraham Neguise (Likud), chairman of the Aliyah Committee and founder of the Lobby for Relations Between Israel and African Countries, welcomed a delegation of prominent women representing 10 sub-Saharan African nations to the Knesset on Monday. The delegation, which included 27 government officials, representatives of NGOs, political leaders, journalists and academics, met with Neguise
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International, Middle EastA school built in Gaza using German funds is educating their students on hatred and violence for Israel and providing children with military training At the end of March, a Hamas-affiliated news agency distributed a video showing a Palestinian teacher indoctrinating school children with hatred for Israel and support for an armed struggle against it.
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International, Middle EastDennis Ross, President Barack Obama”s former Middle East advisor, on Sunday criticized Obama and his decision to distance himself from Israel during his time in office. Speaking at the Jerusalem Post conference in New York, Ross said that Obama “is one of five presidents in modern history who have made a conscious decision to try
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Middle East, USAAn Iranian military adviser has said that Iran could wipe out Israel “in less than eight minutes” if the order was given by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “If the Supreme Leader’s orders [are] to be executed, with the abilities and the equipment at our disposal, we will raze the Zionist regime in less than
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Middle EastThe UK Labour Party has suspended a senior journalist from the party for writing about the anti-Semitism scandal rocking the left-wing party. In his column, Rod Liddle, an associate editor of The Spectator, remarked on the virulent anti-Semitic sentiments held by many Muslim Labour members in particular. He said that anti-Semiitsm is “absolutely endemic within
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International, Middle EastWASHINGTON — Three weeks after The New York Times Magazine published its profile of deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes, in which he describes creating an “echo chamber” of nongovernmental organizations, nuclear proliferation experts and journalists to sell the Iran nuclear deal, it was revealed a group he cited as disseminating the administration’s narrative had
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Middle East, USAOn July 2, thousands of Islamists, radical anti-Israel activists and members of the fringe anti-Zionist group Naturei Karta will once again march in downtown Toronto to for an end to the Jewish State amid frenzied chants of “Zionism is terrorism”, “down, down, Israel” and “Netanyahu you will see, Palestine will be free”. Jewish Defense League
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International, Middle EastBritish historian spurns Israeli prize on ‘political’ grounds (JNS.org) British feminist historian Catherine Hall of University College London declined an Israeli award, the lucrative Dan David Prize, for what she called “political” reasons. Hall did not attend the award ceremony at Tel Aviv University (TAU) on Sunday. TAU administers annual $1 million prizes, named
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Middle EastCoalition chairman MK David Biton (Likud) on Sunday addressed the proposed death penalty law for terrorists initiated by Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman during coalition negotiations. “I think there needs to be a death penalty, not just for those who want to commit suicide, but those who want to carry out a deadly attack only
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